What’s new at FMP this week?
Metropolitan Police, Aliens Registration Office
This new collection sourced from The National Archives (MEPO 35), registration records of 1,257 immigrants into Britain between 1876 and 1965. Find a transcript of the individual’s name, birth year, nationality, and archive reference—alongside images of the original archival cards for those born over 100 years ago. The images frequently include a photograph as well as background information such as full birth and UK arrival dates, residential and employment history, family status, naturalization records, Home Office references, and war service.
Scotland, Court & Criminal Database
FMP added 241,229 records from 1791 to 1937. Find varied transcripts of original documents from Scottish prisons, Crown Office Precognitions (pre-trial witness evidence), High Court Trial Papers, and the Fife Kalendar of Convicts (1708–1909). Each record can include extensive personal background, details of the crime, court proceedings, verdicts, sentences, and specific archival references.
See also yesterday’s post 745,162 Scottish Prisoners.
262,076 pages were added to the newspaper archive this week, with six new titles and updates to 43 existing publications.
New titles, all with 19th-century content, are:
Bournemouth Observer and Fashionable Visitors’ List, 1875, 1889
Carlow Independent and Leinster Agricultural Journal, 1879-1882
North Middlesex Weekly Standard, 1893-1901
Wimbledon Times and Mitcham Advertiser, 1886-1887
Wimbledon, Tooting and Merton Temperance Gazette, 1886-1887
Yorkshire Observer Budget, 1879,1895-1896, 1912.
Updates with more than 10,00 pages added, all but one for the 21st century, are:
| Newspaper Title | Pages Added | Years Added | Years Covered |
| London Evening Standard | 13,116 | 1917–1918 | 1827–1918 |
| North Wales Weekly News | 13,252 | 2004–2005 | 1889–1927, 1940–1999, 2004–2005 |
| Northwich Chronicle | 12,080 | 2000–2002 | 1927, 1982, 1987–2002 |
| Reading Evening Post | 32,698 | 2000, 2003 | 1965–1975, 1977–2003 |
| Runcorn Weekly News | 10,544 | 2000, 2002 | 1913–1933, 1936–1983, 1986–2000, 2002 |
| Sandwell Evening Mail | 41,190 | 2002–2003 | 1975–1999, 2002–2003 |
| Staffordshire Sentinel | 27,926 | 2004 | 1854–1995, 2002–2004 |
| Western Daily Press | 51,472 | 2002, 2004 | 1858–1950, 1962–1988, 1990–1999, 2002, 2004 |